Work Experience in the public and voluntary sectors

• Prospects
• TargetJobs
• Milkround
• Rate My Placement

• Guardian Jobs
• Planning Jobs
• NewStart Jobs

• Charity Job
• Charity People
• Third Sector
• Jobs in Charities 
  
• Birmingham Voluntary Service Council (BVSC) - Third sector jobs

• Eden Brown Synergy
• Morgan Hunt
• Jobs Go Public
• Public Sector Jobs
• Monster
  
• Total Jobs - public sector
• Green Jobs - public sector jobs

Some public bodies in the West Midlands offer temporary work experience opportunities:

• Birmingham City Council opportunities can be accessed through their website:

  • • Birmingham City Council work experience
    • Birmingham City Council jobs

• Staffordshire County Council work experience placements:

  • • Staffordshire County Council - Open Door

• Stratford-On-Avon District Council work experience:

  • • Stratford-On-Avon District Council work experience and placements

• University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust offer a variety of temporary or “bank staff” opportunities for registered nurses, healthcare assistants and administration staff. More information is available at:

  • • UHB+ - the in-house staff bank
    • UHB+ - volunteering

• Public sector jobs in the West Midlands: WM Jobs
• West Midlands Councils - information about all of the councils in the region at: WM Employers
• Civil Service - The Civil Service is a large public sector employer with a challenging portfolio of business priorities and agendas to deliver. The recruitment site provides access to permanent and temporary opportunities: Civil Service job search 
• Sustainability West Midlands - Established by regional partners as the independent regional champion for Sustainable Development and provides advice to regional policy partnerships and the region on sustainability issues: Sustainability West Midlands
• Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) - is a partnership of businesses, local authorities and universities, which supports private sector growth and job creation: GBSLEP
• West Midlands Growth Company - Responsible for local and regional research supporting the development of inward investment and regional policy: West Midlands Growth Company 
• National Graduate Development Programme for Local Government - is the fast-track route into challenging and management positions within the sector. Each year approximately 80 graduates are recruited to the programme at a national level and employed by a host Local Authority: National Graduate Development Programme
• The Chamber of Commerce - The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) is a dynamic, high-profile and independent business network, with Chambers across the UK: British Chambers of Commerce
• Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce is a business support organization within the West Midlands. Local Chambers sit at the heart of the community, working with businesses of all sizes, and representing all sectors: Birmingham Chamber

The NHS can offer a varied range of opportunities to people with a non-medical background:

• NHS Jobs
• Birmingham Children's Hospital - volunteers 
• Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Birmingham - work experience 
• Heart of England - work experience

In addition to the Civil Service jobs website, opportunities within Central Government may be found through the Civil Service Fast Stream portal, as well as HM Revenue & Customs

Individual government departments:

• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs                    
• Department for International Development
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory                                
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Civil Service - Government Economic Service
• Government Communication Service          
• Health and Safety Executive
• Ministry of Defence                          
• Intellectual Property Office

These provide support to publicly funded and government bodies and voluntary sector organisations:

• M·E·L Research
• ICF (Inner City Fund)                               
• SQW
• BMG Research           
• Tribal Group
• Royal Town Planning Institute - Directory of Planning Consultants                   
• Care Quality Commission

The voluntary sector is made up of a diverse range of organisations working on different social, economic, environmental and political agendas. They include registered charities, not-for-profit, voluntary organisations and the third sector.

National and international

• Cancer Research UK
• Mencap
• Red Cross
• Shelter
• Oxfam
• Terrence Higgins Trust
• Barnardo's
• Amnesty International
• Crisis
• Young Minds
• Groundwork
• Smithsonian Institution
• United Nations Volunteers
• United Nations
• Prince's Trust

National lobbying bodies and Think Tanks

• Education Policy Institute
• New Policy Institute
• Centre for Policy Studies
• Civitas
• Chatham House
• Institute for Public Policy Research
• Institute of Commonwealth Studies
• Foreign Policy Centre
• Compass
• Reform
• Constitution Unit - University College London
• Fabian Society
• Social Market Foundation
• Unlock Democracy
• Adam Smith - the Next Generation
• Demos - Jobs and Internships

• Volunteering Matters
• Do It
• V Inspired
  

See the Jobs, Skills and Volunteering department at the Guild of Students.

• Birmingham - BVSC, Centre for Voluntary Action 
• Sandwell Voluntary and Community Sector 
• Solihull SUSTAiN
• Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council